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      <![CDATA[I have to ask, might this be a great opportunity for incoming Medillians to challenge what is seemingly a gross abuse of our tuition and willingness to get  the best J-education?  Can't we use the tools at hand (OUR paper and website) to criticize the subordination of journalism to marketing?  I've read some of the [timid] articles in Medill's publications and would be inspired to see our honed skills as the Fourth Estate in this apparent Lavine Regime.
        
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      <![CDATA[The gang now running Medill -- who hail from the Media Management Center at NU -- is trying to please the corporate media industry (and, by extension, its shareholders) by attempting to turn out graduates who will deliver bottom-line based journalism. It is ironic that these marketing mavens totally misunderstood the traditional Medill "brand" ("Coke classic" redux?) and are disregarding and disrespecting their primary "audience" -- tuition-paying students who come to get a respectable journalism education.
        
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      <![CDATA[It sounds like what the Tribune Company did to the LA Times. News is news and people will always want it and need it. The delivery can be changed and adapted to the times, but the essence of that important work should not change to please stockholders. Oh, I forgot Medill is not a cold corporation, so who the hell are they trying to please?
        
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      <![CDATA[Perhaps Medill administration should establish better ways of communicating with its faculty. To my limited knowledge, at least two top-notch Medill faculty  have left Career Services so far this summer. Why has Medill lost such assets? Poor communication, perhaps?
    
    I've interviewed Lavine. He is excellent at handling reporters' questions. But he MUST now concede that he , at the very least, failed in communicating Medill 2020.
    
    Medill's reputaion has been severely tarnished. I propose that Lavine hold a townhall meeting sometime this fall, inviting all interested alumni, local media, facluty and students to ask him face-to-face their concerns. I believe Lavine's views should be tested in a public forum. Newspaper articles and blogs are not enough to save the school.
        
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      <![CDATA[Somehow I still remain on some email lists of current Medillians. I'm getting a steady flow of blistering commentary from them about these problems. 
    
    I'm glad I graduated several years ago before having to put up with what sounds like poor organization under b/s marketing-style principles.
    
    But I'm worried that the $500 per month that I'll be paying for my Medill education for nearly two more decades will seem less worth it if the school's current leadership runs its reputation into the ground.
    
    I do not like the current web page, for example, which blurs the line between IMC and the journalism program more than ever. I'd prefer a church-state separation between journalism and marketing communications. But ha, maybe that website is a reflection of the current state of corporate media after all...
        
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      <![CDATA[it's obvious that the people defending Lavine are not students at the school. there is a huge gap in theory and implementation. any student would tell you that the ideas aren't necessary wrong... it's that these people DON'T KNOW HOW TO RUN A SCHOOL.
        
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      <![CDATA[I was at Fisk Hall today and learned that the Dean's office is in the process of being "re-designed." Won't be done until September.
    
    Perhaps that is why the Dean is too busy to comment here or to the MANY grads that have started e-mailing him about their dissatisfaction with his changes.    
    
    Is this really where the Administration's priorities are at?
        
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      <![CDATA[Response to the Response :-):
    
    Your arguments, which echo Lavine's, make sense. You and he are right: Journalists must understand their readers or "end-users," as you call them. And you are both right that reportorial quality and consideration of audience aren't mutually exclusive.
    
    Yes, change must happen at Medill, but what's going on has little to do with understanding an audience. Instead, administrators are cutting back on writing and reporting training. Guest lecturers are visiting classes to persuade students that newspapers will soon be dead, if they aren't already. Wonderful, experienced instructors are facing new and hastily-designed curricula they don't know how to, or simply cannot, implement. Students are being told to purchase thousands of dollars worth of fancy technology, barely any of which they have used in classes so far. Lavine promises this will soon change, but I'm skeptical. What is the purpose of every student owning Adobe Fireworks and Microsoft Access? (These are but two of the dozens of required applications, which cost over $1K.)
    
    While I'm sympathetic to several of the arguments of Lavine supporters, I don't believe they realize that the dean's rhetoric doesn't match his actions.
    
    Consider this. Lavine quietly made a semantic change last year that received little attention: He removed two words from the school's name. No longer do I attend the Medill School of Journalism; it's now simply the Medill School. Perhaps this seems insignificant, but I find the dean's explanation telling. Medill isn't only a journalism school, he says when asked. It's a school of so many things: journalism, marketing, media management, advertising... the list goes on, but I can't remember the rest.
    
    Certainly, the shortened name indicates that journalism is no longer the school's sole primary focus. But I'm willing to go further and argue that Medill is becoming something other than a journalism school. The new administration exhibits fascination with technology, pessimism about the future of print media, and disinterest or disdain for teaching writing and reporting. That doesn't sound like what goes on at journalism school, even in 2020.
    
    To modify a Douglas Adams quote: If it looks less and less like a duck, and it quacks less and less like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that it's stopped being a duck.
        
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      <![CDATA[I couldn&acirc;&#128;&#153;t resist checking back to see if my earlier posting stirred the pot a bit. I&acirc;&#128;&#153;m glad that it did. 
    
    In my own career I&acirc;&#128;&#153;ve seen merit in developing greater insight into end-users. Who are they, how do they intend to engage my work? Same goes for considering where/how my stories will appear and considering this beforehand to increase the impact of my work.  
    
    The bottom line is that reportorial quality and consideration of audience aren&acirc;&#128;&#153;t polar opposites. Same goes for technology versus meat and potatoes reporting. They can and should be mutually reinforcing. 
    
    It&acirc;&#128;&#153;s curious to me that the previous respondent writes in the plural voice and claims to know the motivation of all who dislike current changes.  If that&acirc;&#128;&#153;s not spin I don&acirc;&#128;&#153;t know what is.  
    It&acirc;&#128;&#153;s also foolish to equate day to day adaptation with major change.  Just like journalists, soldiers have to constantly adapt to change and move from location to location. That&acirc;&#128;&#153;s a fundamentally different order of change than questioning basic operation assumptions or rethinking core strategies. 
    
    Revitalization can come from questioning long unchallenged traditions and practices. It can also come from seeing change take root and realizing some benefit from new approaches.  Sure that&acirc;&#128;&#153;s abstract but I&acirc;&#128;&#153;m referring to how major change can be revitalizing in a general sense. 
    
    I thought it would be patronizing to suggest specific ways we Medillians might influence the process but my respondent, and the minions (s)he speaks for, argues otherwise. So here goes: What about truly organizing alums/students to act in a more collective voice? At a more modest level how many here have written the dean with specific concerns or suggestions? How about checking in with favorite faculty and sounding them out?  I&acirc;&#128;&#153;m sure others have even smarter ideas than this. I&acirc;&#128;&#153;m guilty of inaction too. I&acirc;&#128;&#153;m just saying that complaining on a blog is different than trying to actively influence what&acirc;&#128;&#153;s going on. My sense is that Medill has committed to general strategic goals but much about exactly how those goals are reached can be influenced.
        
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      <![CDATA[To the previous poster: Please add substance.
    
    "enhance relevance." - How? And why at the exclusion of the Legal Rpa, for example?
    
    "unsettling though at best revitalizing" -- How is it revitalizing? That's a great word, but where's the meaning?
    
    The people who dislike Medill's new direction aren't scared of change. Journalists have to adapt and change every day. We switch jobs every couple of years and move to new cities.
    
    We aren't afraid to leave the status quo.
    
    But we are smart and we do know what journalism demands, and we see that the new curriculum isn't preparing students as well as it was.
    
    New technology is great, but it shoudln't be at the expense of the meat and potatoes reporting.
    
    Cut the spin. Tell us how we can "actively influence" the process when all opposition to the plan is censored?
        
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      <![CDATA[What's with all the whining? 
    
    I saw Lavine speak at an alumni gathering and I think his perspective is fairly sound. Anyone who has listened to him closely or read the school's materials carefully will see that the aim of the new endeavors is to enhance relevance in response to changes in how news and information gets consumed and created in this day and age. While it's sort of fun to get all worked up by deciding he's trying to eviscerate journalistic integrity, I just don't see it.  
    
    Just like "strong mayor" policies in cities like Oakland or Washington D.C. I get it that any suspension of normal governance procedures isn't to be taken lightly. It's only warranted when big changes are needed. It strikes me as telling that outsiders to Medill see the need for change but those of us from the inside seem unwilling to admit that big change was needed because it threatens our own sense of greatness. 
    
    Clearly a policy of "free-reign" is controversial but let's pause and take a minute to consider why a university would undertake such an extraordinary measure, knowing that it would be criticized for doing so. Things need to get mighty screwed up for something like this to happen.
    
    In so many fields it seems like highly ranked schools stagnate and fall victim to their own past sucess. Innovation seems unnecessary and risky if you believe in your own pr and think you have and deserve the best reputation.  
    
    I think Lavine is simply trying to narrow that gap between the ivory tower and the real world in a place that has been falling behind the times for years. 
    
    Yes it's a shake-up and big change is challenging and unsettling though at best revitalizing. Still, our time can be better spent actively influencing the process than bystanding and complaining about it.
        
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      <![CDATA[Are they really working with a PR firm?  Shouldn't the IMC-er's be helping them to "market Medill?"
        
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      <![CDATA[I too met many sharp, passionate journalists-in-the-making at Medill. I also met many complacent students who saw nothing wrong with Lavine's audience-centric approach to journalism. Most of the students seemed happy to earn their qualifications from Medill without even attempting to rock the boat. 
    
    I think it will be rather difficult for Medillians to make significant contributions to journalism -- how can we refine American journalism when we're simply taught how to fit into the current media market? We'd need something much greater than an example of "what not to do," certainly. 
    
    Under Lavine's reign, we weren't required to take proper writing classes, but rather were drilled in test classes. We were instructed to write for an "audience," and weren't challenged to think critically about the world around us. Oh, but we do have lots of expensive technology equipment that we don't really know how to use.
        
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      <![CDATA[He's waiting for the PR firm to tell him what to say...seriously...
        
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      <![CDATA[I still haven't seen a response from Lavine.  Any current students have some insight?
        
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      <![CDATA[I recently graduated from Medill, and I share the frustration about the administration expressed by many of these Medill students and alumni. I do have to add, however, that I am hopeful because I've met many sharp, passionate journalists-in-the-making at Medill, made all the more passionate by Lavine's mishandling of the school. I have no doubt that Medillians will continue to make significant contributions to the Fourth Estate, and in the process, we will prove that the story comes first, the medium second. Not only that, but when we rise to positions of management in media outlets, we will know immediately how not to run an organization, thanks to Dean Lavine's example.
        
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      <![CDATA[All the alumni I am still in touch with are disgusted by the direction Medill has taken.  When we were there, the IMC program was viewed as something to be moved OUT of Medill to Kellogg.  Journalism schools should be places that resist the dangerous merging of editorial content with corporate interests/marketing/PR/other bullsh*t that's becoming more and more rampant in the industry.
    I had always planned on donating some money to Medill when I had a bit more ... after Lavine's changes, I never will.
        
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      <![CDATA[Current students! 
    
    If you don't like where something is going -- change it! 
    
    An apathetic attitude, whining -- "I wasted my money!" -- doesn't do anything.
    
    You got into journalism, if you're like me, because you care. 
    
    Show that you care. You'll feel a lot better. 
    
    And redeem the school's name in the process.
    
    Good luck.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[That first Medillian, again]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The 2020 Vision reads like the hundreds of press releases that cross my desk daily. Lotsa words, no substance.
    
    Cut the crap, Levine!
    
    Do you want to go down in Northwestern History as the man who ruined Medill? The Jim Florio of the Medill School of Journalism? (Look it up.)
    
    Don't stomp out quality journalism.
    
    Current Medill students, don't lose heart. Maybe practice some of your reporting and writing skills on your new dean. Write about what you find in the Daily Northwestern. Write news reports. Write columns. Don't let up. Get attention.
    
    Medill is still a great journalism school -- stand your ground. 
    
    Future editors will be impressed. And side with you.
    
    I know I will.
    
    --From a reporter who could be your boss one day. ;)
        
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      <![CDATA[Actually that should be "Medill 2020's his Iraq"
    
    kind of botched that metaphor didn't I?
        
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      <![CDATA[Man, Dean Lavine's like the George W Bush of deans and Medill's his Iraq.
    
    Even the good ideas he DOES have are poorly executed. Seriously, someone find some students and faculty members and ask them about those friggin' laptops they've been saddled with, the ones that were shilled to them for $3k a pop, including free but crappy tech support. They look like Russian surplus from the Cold War era.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Joe Zekas]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I've hired a number of Medill grads over the years and always had a bias in favor of Medill because of the positive experiences I've had with hiring their students.
    
    Over the past several years, however, it's become clear that Medill has totally abdicated its responsibility to prepare students for the world they'll be entering. 
    
    They come out today shockingly ignorant. contemptuous of anyone who isn't, and with a passive approach to their role in shaping their own future.
    
    The school needed a drastic shakeup. It couldn't possibly do a worse job with the resources it had.
    
    Just one opinion from a narrow perspective.
        
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      <![CDATA[https://my.medill.northwestern.edu/blogs/dean/
        
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      <![CDATA[Could someone post a link to the internal blog mentioned above?  Would like to see the discussion.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wow, it is such a relief to read these comments. I wanted to drop out of Medill after the first three weeks of instruction.
    
    I'm very sorry that I wasted thousands of dollars on my little misadventure. I can't tell you how turned-off I am from journalism. 
    
    Who exactly thought it would be a good idea to put a businessman in charge of an academic program?
        
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